| | October 20164CIOReviewEditorialVOL 4 · ISSUE 5-2 · OCTOBER 17 - 2016In the age of digital business, enterprise architects face the opportunity to reinvent themselves to take on leadership roles that drive strategic innovation, transformation, growth and competitive advantage for their business. The digital business requires a renewed approach to architecture, from enterprise and business architecture disciplines to the use of emerging solution patterns. EA teams will have to understand the new disruptive trends, and make their organizations ready to adapt these trends. EA teams will have to define the target Business Architecture that will help organizations to focus on the changing customer needs in the digital era. EA will cater to new digital technologies in terms of addressing the needs of the business. The business objectives that the organization wants to achieve in the era of IoT and digital, will have to be clearly identified. Another thing that's going to change drastically is Application Architecture. Information System (Application) Architecture will have to consider how the new technology trends are going to define new age apps and intelligent / smart machines. Information System Architecture will specifically acknowledge and provision for intelligent / smart machines. The software and hardware components selected will have to meet the business architecture requirements. Most of the software and hardware will be cloud based. Daily operations will be planned to use the cloud optimally to reduce the cost of operations further. One more thing which is going to be of prime importance is the Security Architecture. In the era of connected things, EA teams will have to pay special focus on safeguarding their organization's assets. In the digital era, security architecture will become very important in terms of protecting and safeguarding customer and organization's data. It will have to go beyond safeguarding physical and virtual assets, and define mechanism to protect social brand image as well. In this issue, CIOReview presents to you 20 Most Promising Enterprise Architecture Solution Providers who have successfully helped organizations with their innovative offerings. These companies pride themselves on keeping pace with the latest technological advancements in Enterprise Architecture domain. We hope this issue gives you helpful insight into this market landscape. Sudhakar SinghAssistant Managing Editorsudhakar@cioreviewindia.comEnterprise Architecture Will Cater to New Digital Technologies PublisherEditor-in-ChiefManaging EditorOffice Editorial queries editor@cioreviewindia.com To subscribeVisit www.cioreviewindia.com/magazine-in or send email to: subscription@cioreviewindia.comCover price is Rs 150 per issueAshok KumarVirupakshi PattarAlok ChaturvediPradeep ShankarVignesh AnantharajCIOReviewSr. VisualizerGroup Art DirectorVP - Sales & MarketingMagendran PerumalCirculation ManagerEditorial TeamGurveen ChahalRose MarySeena KennethShaheen SaikiaSuchita GonsalvesCIOReview No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugheshpalya, Bangalore-560017ManjunathMaitreyeeCIOReviewAssistant Managing EditorSudhakar SinghVisualizerAdvertising queriessales@cioreviewindia.comBangaloreTel 080 46441103DelhiTel 011 45992100Sales & MarketingAmrit SinghIndranil ChakrabortyRavi Kalgi Rohit RaghubanshiPrinted and published by Alok Chaturvedi on Behalf of BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published at No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Pradeep ShankarCopyright © 2016 BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Re-production in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.
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